mealy-mouthed

not brave enough to say what you mean directly and honestly Strangely enough, although we are getting more mealy-mouthed about mental and physical disabilities, we are increasingly frank about bodily functions.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Bogdan	BAWG-dahn (Polish), BOG-dahn (Serbian, Croatian), bog-DAHN (Romanian)	Polish, Russian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian, Medieval Slavic
Guilherme	gee-LYER-mə	Portuguese
Taras	tah-RAHS (Russian)	Ukrainian, Russian
Wieland	-	German, Germanic Mythology
Nazih	-	Arabic
Yiorgos	-	Greek